@myrmepropagandist Honestly I don't think that's far off, I mean we had the Red Scare in the early 50's, the Korean War was largely about stopping the commies (unsuccessfully), and Vietnam was basically Korean War II. There was a real belief that in the domino theory, if one country became communist, then another would and another and another until the entire world was part of the USSR (this is actually shown in the pilot episode of Sliders). It really was one of the stupidest US wars with no real value to it beyond that.